In mountainMath/canbank: Access Bank Of Canada Data

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canbank

An R package to provide convenient access to the Bank of Canada data API.

Documentation

canbank R package home page and reference guide

Installation

You can install the released version of canbank from CRAN with:

remotes::install_github("mountainmath/canbank")

Example

The package can import data for one or several Bank of Canada time series or series groups. For example, to access the series group "SAN_MIKA20210428_C1" with metrics pertaining to house price growth in Canada we can easily retrieve the data using the get_boc_series_group method.

library(canbank)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
## basic example code

data <- get_boc_series_group("SAN_MIKA20210428_C1") %>%
  mutate(name=gsub(" \\(.+$","",label)) %>%
  filter(!is.na(Value))

ggplot(data,aes(x=Date,y=Value)) +
  geom_line() +
  facet_wrap(~name, scales="free") +
  labs(title="House price metrics",
       y=NULL,x=NULL,
       caption="Bank of Canada series group SAN_MIKA20210428_C1")